Re: Ada on punched cards?

["George Lafortune" <george_n_lafortune@res.raytheon.com>]

In the early 90's, I actually wrote a punch card reader device driver that
was a combination
of Ada and assembly code.    It was fun interpreting status bits such as
"hopper stuck".

Stephen Leake wrote in message ...
>Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever written an Ada program on
>punched cards?
>
>And if you have to ask "what's a punched card", you don't want to know
>:).
>
>Punched cards disappeared from the machines I had access to before
>1983, so I doubt it. But the topic came up recently, and I figured
>that's a perfect question for this group!
>
>--
>-- Stephe